Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and thats more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. Youre constantly evolving, so shouldnt your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The SCRUM Master is a member of the Digital Transformation team. The SCRUM Master does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating meetings and working with the product owners to ensure product is ready for the next sprint. The successful candidate will have experience guiding teams and organizations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to increase customer satisfaction.

The Work Itself

* Contribute to building an environment where continuous improvement of the development process is in focus and where everyone's common goal is to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible
* Support and coach 1-2 software development teams day-in and out
* Is a Servant Leader to the team who steers away from Command and Control style leadership
* Facilitates Agile ceremonies, specifically Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retro and Sprint Review/Demo sessions for the teams
* Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with Product Owner and partners
* Involves team in identifying and removing impediments and known risks continuously
* Helps to establish and maintain a culture of self-organization and self-accountability amongst the team
* Ensures cross-team and inter-team transparency and communication
* Guides the team through aggregating, providing and acting on meaningful feedback
* Participates in identifying and establishing Agile and team guidelines and best practices
* Actively tries to identify and act on areas of improvement and conceptualize methods on how to be more efficient
* Assists in guiding the organization as a whole, not just the delivery teams, on how to utilize Agile practices to drive value and delight customers
* Supports the Product Owner(s) especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the backlog
* Partners with other verticals within the business to bring more alignment and transparency between them and the delivery teams

The Skills You Bring

* Minimum of 3 years of Scrum Master experience
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM or related certification strongly preferred, not required)
* Experience applying concepts and techniques from various agile approaches including Scrum, Kanban, XP
* Understanding of various scaling approaches such as SAFe, LeSS, DAD or Scrum at Scale
* Strong servant-leader able to lead and work with multiple diverse roles & personalities
* Strong team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
* Strong awareness and intuition towards group/team dynamics
* Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
* Experience using Agile-tracking tools (Jira, Rally, Version One or similar tool).
* Highly adaptable to changing environment

How Well Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Allys total compensation or total rewards extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.